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2 You know that for the last three years I have been ploddingly making observations about this valley the high mountain
region to the East of it drifting broodingly about taking in every natural lesson that I was fitted to absorb In par- ticular
the great valley has always kept a place in my mind How did the Lord make it? What tools did he use? How did he apply them
when? I considered the sky above it all of its opening canons, studied the flowers that came in by every door that I saw standing
open, but I could get no light Then I said Your are attempting what is not possible for you to accomplish Yosemite is the
end of a grand chap- ter - if you would learn to read it go commence at the beginning Then I went above to the alphabet valleys
of the summits comparing canon with 3 canon with all their varieties of rock structure cleavage the comparative size slope
of the glaciers waters wh they contained Also the grand congregations of rock creations was present to me I studied their
forms sculpture. I soon had a key to every Yosemite rock perpendicular sloping wall. The grandeur of these forces their glorious
results overpower me inhabit my whole being, waking or sleeping I have no rest in dreams I was blurred sheets of glacial writing
or follow lines of cleavage or struggle with the difficulties of some extraordinary rock form. Now it is clear that woe is
me if I do not drown this tendency towards nervous prostration by constant labor in working up the details of this whole question
I have been down from the